An optimal nonorthogonal separation of the anisotropic Gaussian convolution filter

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3501-3513

  Lampert, Christoph H ^a   Wirjadi, Oliver ^b  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL MATHEMATICS ITWM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convolution; Feature extraction; Filtering; Multi dimensional digital filters

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FIR FILTERS; IIR FILTERS; INTERPOLATION; OPTIMIZATION;

ANISOTROPIC GAUSSIAN CONVOLUTION FILTER; OPTIMAL NONORTHOGONAL SEPARATION;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FILTRATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; FILTRATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33750329904     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.877501     Document Type: Article

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